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Epguides.com Ubiquity command

Jan 24th

So over the past week I have written another ubiquity command. This time it is for epguides.com to easily find the date of when the last episode of a particular TV show was and when the next one will be.

Here is a quick demo video I made. With actual commentary and editing this time!

The command only took about 3 hours once I got my development environment set up.

You can subscribe to the command by visiting the project page with ubiquity installed in Firefox.

firefox, javascript, tv, ubiquity

Torrentz.com Ubiquity command

May 24th

Posted by Tom in Development

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After wanting to brush up on my JavaScript skills for a few weeks now I finally got round to writing a command for Ubiquity.

Ubiquity is a Firefox command project from Mozilla Labs that allows users to create mashups on the fly, giving them easy access to a number of great web applications there are on the internet. One of my favourite commands is the “define” that whilst I’m reading an article allows me to highlight the word and easily discover that words meaning without leaving that page/tab. I would urge Firefox users to check it out; it is one of the main reasons I haven’t moved over to using Opera as my main web browser.

My basic command allows a user to access results from the meta torrent search engine Torrentz.com. Within ubiquity you can easily see the top 5 results for your search based on the total number of peers (number of people uploading + number of people downloading) currently active for that torrent. It also shows some basic information like the age, size and the tags associated with a particular result. It gets this information by screen-scraping the Torrentz.com search page and displaying it nicely within the preview panel.

Below you can find a screen cast I created that would have been edited if I could find a usable piece of software to do it in Ubuntu! Also, there is a link to use if you have Ubiquity installed and wish to make use of the command.